Software Engineering Book: Deliverable 7.4

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Deliverable 7.4
Deliverable 7.4. Software Engineering Book.
Deliverable: D7.4
Title: Software Engineering Book
Editor(s): Youssef RIDENE (NETF)
Contributor(s): Giuliano Casale (IMP), Youssef RIDENE (NETF), Joas Yannick
Kinouani(NETF), Laurie-Anne Parant (NETF), Chen Li (IMP), Lulai Zhu
(IMP), Tatiana Ustinova (IMP), Pooyan Jamshidi (IMP), Danilo Ardagna
(PMI), Marcello Bersani (PMI), Elisabetta Di Nitto (PMI), Eugenio Gianniti
(PMI), Michele Guerriero (PMI), Matteo Rossi (PMI), Damian Andrew
Tamburri (PMI), Safia Kalwar (PMI), Francesco Marconi (PMI), Gabriel
Iuhasz (IEAT), Dana Petcu (IEAT), Ioan Dragan (IEAT), Matej Artač,
(XLAB), Tadej Borovšak (XLAB), Craig Sheridan (FLEXI), David
McGowran, Grant Olsson (FLEXI), Vasilis Papanikolaou (ATC), George
Giotis (ATC), Christophe Joubert (PRO), Ismael Torres (PRO), Marc Gil
(PRO), Simona Bernardi (ZAR), Abel Gómez (ZAR), José Merseguer
(ZAR), Diego Pérez (ZAR), José-Ignacio Requeno (ZAR)
Reviewers: Chen Li (IMP), Dana Petcu (IEAT)
Type (R/P/DEC): DEC
Version: 1.0
Date: 31-January-2018
Status: Final version
Dissemination level: Public
Download page: http://www.dice-h2020.eu/resources/
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DICE partners
ATC: Athens Technology Centre
FLEXI: Flexiant Limited
IEAT: Institutul E Austria Timisoara
IMP: Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
NETF: Netfective Technology SA
PMI: Politecnico di Milano
PRO: Prodevelop SL
XLAB: XLAB razvoj programske opreme in svetovanje d.o.o.
ZAR: Unversidad De Zaragoza
The DICE project (February 2015-January 2018) has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 644869
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Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................................. 3

1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................. 4
2. CONTENT ............................................................................................................................................................. 7
3. CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................................... 8

1. Introduction
Since the beginning of the project, the DICE consortium considered the communication and dissemination
activities as a central element for the success of the project. An ambitious strategy has been established in
order to reach a large audience including scientific/academic communities and industrial companies. As
planned, the execution of the strategy has been successful thanks to the involvement of all partners. In fact,
all the possible communication channels have been intensively used (Website, scientific publications, blog
posts, industrial events, keynotes, meetups, social Medias, videos, Wiki, Webinars, training sessions, etc.).
This viral multichannel communication generates a lot of interest and consequently potential business and
scientific opportunities for mostly all the DICE partners. This estimation includes the website analytics,
social media analytics, GitHub analytics, deliverable downloads, persons reached in events (online/offline),
etc. And actually, 70% of the audience was reached online which is not surprising regarding the profiles
of the targeted audience. This audience analysis motivated the idea to publish the DICE Book online,
making it available in the open to the community of end users.
From another perspective, the sustainability strategy of the DICE ecosystem were thought and built around
open source software were anyone can download the DICE IDE and extend it within any new Big Data
technology. And actually, this is already in action with people who started adapting/modifying DICE to their
own needs. This situation was interesting but also challenging, i.e., does it make sense to publish a “static”
book about a product which is already adopted by some external users in a highly changing Big Data
ecosystem?
Taking into consideration the double dilemma of a up-to-date “living“ book and reaching the largest possible
audience, the consortium decided to publish the book in a collaborative community-oriented platform. After
a test and assessment period, we decided to use WikiBooks (https://www.wikibooks.org/) which offers a
bench of advantages such as a huge active community, collaborative editing, moderation, etc.
As of today, the DICE Book “Practical DevOps for Big Data” is available at
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Practical_DevOps_for_Big_Data
The book even started receiving inputs of people external to DICE, as we could establish from the edit history,
and has enjoyed the constant review of WikiBooks volunteer reviewers, which in a number of occasions
corrected small problems to the book, as illustrated in the screenshot in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Book editing history - the two topmost contributions are from WikiBooks reviewers
Moreover, the WikiBooks platform offers an easy PDF export feature. This feature may be used, for instance,
to publish a free version on other platforms such as Amazon Kindle and Google Play Books. Moreover,
through its PressPedia service, WikiBooks allows to obtain a hardcopy of the book in return of a small price
(about 20 euros).
Figure 2 PressPedia service to print the WikiBook
Figure 3 further illustrates the advertisement we have done on the DICE website of our book, so that end
users can rapidly access to the relevant WikiBooks page.

Figure 3 DICE Book advertisment on project website
Professor Franck Barbier (University of Pau1), has kindly accepted to preface the DICE Book. Actually this
is a supplementary sign arguing for the quality of the contribution, as Prof. Franck Barbier is an international
expert with over 20 years experience both in Academia and Industry. He has published around 150
books/papers mainly related to Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and Unified Modeling Language (UML).
He also was deputy head of the ICTS department at the French National Research Agency. Currently he is
deputy member of the Council of the French Universities.
1
http://www.univ-pau.fr/en/home.html

2. Content
Practical DevOps for Big Data is about a methodology for constructing big data applications. A
methodology exists for the purpose of solving software development problems. It is made of development
processes—workflows, ways of doing things—and tools to help concretise them. The ideal and guiding
principle of a methodology is to facilitate the job and guarantee the satisfaction of stakeholders involved in
a software project—end-users and maintainers included. Our methodology addresses the problem of reusing
complex and not easily learned big data technologies to effectively and efficiently build big data systems of
good quality. To do so, it takes inspiration from two other successful methodologies: DevOps and model-
driven engineering. Regarding prerequisites, we assume the reader has a general understanding of software
engineering, and, from a tool point of view, a familiarity with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and
the Eclipse IDE. The book is composed of eight parts, an overview of their content is directly available on
the WikiBook version and in the print attached to this deliverable.
1. Introduction
- Introduction
- Related Work
2. DevOps and Big Data Modelling
- Methodology
- Review of UML Diagrams Useful for Big Data
3. Modelling Abstractions
- Introduction to Modelling
- Platform-Independent Modelling
- Technology-Specific Modelling
- Deployment-Specific Modelling
4. Formal Quality Analysis
- Quality Verification
- Quality Simulation
- Quality Optimisation
5. From Models to Production
- Delivery
- Configuration Optimisation
- Quality Testing
- Fault Injection
6. From Production Back to Models
- Monitoring
- Anomaly Detection
- Trace Checking
- Iterative Enhancement
7. Case Studies
- Fraud Detection
- Maritime Operations
- News and Media
8. Conclusion
- Future Challenges
- Closing Remarks

3. Conclusion
The consortium spent a significant effort in order to meet a high quality document which can actually used
by any external parties with limited resources to succeed its Big Data project. We foresee that the DICE
community will continue working on the WikiBook in order to enrich it within any new feature added to
their tools, i.e. a future-proof strategy for a volatile IT ecosystems.
The PDF version of the book is available in attachment to this deliverable. Due to a limitation of the
WikiBooks platform itself, the PDF print from browser does not always reflect the correct alignment
of figure and the font sizes that is visible in the online version, we therefore invite the readers to directly
check the online WikiBooks version:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Practical_DevOps_for_Big_Data

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Developing Data-Intensive Cloud

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Software Engineering Book

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TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................................. 3

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Figure 2 PressPedia service to print the WikiBook

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Figure 3 DICE Book advertisment on project website

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